Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:24:05AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Have we considered enabling Compiz by default in GNOME and fall back to
metacity if the driver or hardware don't support acceleration? That
would get desktop effects out of the box on Intel and some ATI cards.
Compiz is too buggy to use - its still hopelessly broken with java menus
and you'd want to use one of the actually maintained compositing managers
instead.
Well, replace Compiz (and Beryl) with Compiz Fusion when we get around
to importing it into the Fedora repository.
Even then
- Do you know anyone who doesn't turn the effects off eventually ?
Quite a lot actually. I see it being discussed almost constantly and
there is a lot of interest in it. I know many folks do think of it as a
set of useless whiz bang effects and the presence of some excessive
effects in Beryl and the cramped up preferences didn't help with that
but it does offer a number of small usability improvements like the
expose equivalent or preview of apps when switching between them are nice.
- Do we care about the huge increase in power consumption ?
If we did, we would ideally fix the bugs with power consumption and with
like Java. Getting it enabled by default (atleast in rawhide) might act
as a good incentive. Think SELinux.
Rahul
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